HERALD NET As a retired Washington State Patrol officer, and as a former Snohomish County Sheriff, I feel a responsibility to help voters understand the dangers posed by a ballot initiative cloaked in the guise of “parents rights.” School counselors, domestic violence prevention advocates, and….

SEATTLE TIMES Voters should reject the initiative on the November ballot that would ban roughly 10-12 transgender Washington girls from competing in school-sponsored sports. If this were a “Washington problem“ it would be worth studying as a pressing issue to be resolved by the electorate, informed with science. But it is not. 

SEATTLE TIMES The question at the heart of the matter is student safety. Domestic violence experts say the initiative could make it harder for a child to reach a safe adult. For that reason, we urge voters to turn it down.

PRESS RELEASE The patient-physician relationship is fundamental to the delivering safe, patient-centered medical care. These initiatives interfere with medical providers’ ability to counsel and treat patients alongside their families based on the best available medical evidence and their professional medical judgement.

SHORELINE AREA NEWS The Shoreline City Council on Monday unanimously passed a resolution to oppose a pair of state ballot initiatives targeting children — especially transgender children — in Washington public schools. In doing so, Shoreline became one of the first cities in Washington to publicly oppose the ballot initiatives, titled IL26-001 and IL26-638.

HERALD NET As a former school nurse and the parent of girls who were both very active in school sports teams, I am appalled that MAGA interests are playing politics with girls’ bodies and lives. Initiative 638 on our November ballot would require that girls in elementary, middle, and high school undergo sex verification, including…

THE STRANGER‍ ‍While most parents provide loving, supportive, safe environments for their children, the sad reality is there were 117,000 reports of child abuse or neglect in Washington in 2024 alone. Voters need to be aware that I-001 on November’s ballot, an initiative backed by MAGA mega-donor Brian Heywood…

SEATTLE GAY NEWS The report argues that Title IX — the landmark civil rights law that opened school athletics to generations of girls — has gone too far. It paints women’s growing participation in competitive sports not as one of America’s greatest…

THE NEWS TRIBUNE Recently, the Tacoma City Council unanimously passed a resolution opposing two harmful initiatives (I-001, I-638) on the November ballot. As a school counselor in the Tacoma area, I’m so proud city leaders are taking action against…

SKAGIT VALLEY HERALD Imagine that you are a transgender child or youth right now. The target is on your back. In November, there will be an initiative on the ballot that seeks to strip these kids from the one resource that they have. Initiative 26-001 would require…

THE MARY SUE Girls’ sports are in the spotlight up in Washington. And people are upset about a possible school rule that could deem students eligible to play. Some Washington State citizens are taking issue with IL26-638, a ballot initiative to ban…

ADVOCATE If passed, IL26-638 would impose special eligibility requirements on athletes from kindergarten through high school, requiring them to certify their sex assigned at birth through genetic screening, a testosterone levels test, or even an examination of their reproductive…

THE CUT “I haven’t met a single person who has thought this was a good initiative, and I think for good reason because it just has no place in school sports. [...] This measure is rooted in such hate. It is villainizing children. It is controlling both girls’ autonomy and anatomy.”

PRESS RELEASE At tonight’s regular council meeting, Tacoma City Councilmembers voted unanimously to approve a resolution opposing two MAGA-backed ballot measures before Washington’s voters on this November’s ballot.

THE 19TH It’s the most extreme measure of its kind,” said Libby Watson, campaign manager for No Hate in WA State, the primary coalition fighting the initiative. “People are often appalled when they hear that and when they see it in writing on the initiative.”

THE VIEW There's a bill in Washington happening right now that's gonna require all girls just, like, full stop to go through a sex test, an invasive examining [of] their genitals to see if they're a 'woman.' We know what that means…

MARIE CLAIRE “How do you enforce who is “girl enough” to play sports? In my home state of Washington, the most extreme proposal of its kind is before voters on the November ballot. Measure I-638 would require all girls—but not boys—to be medically sex certified before they can play sports.”

GO SKAGIT The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association estimates that of approximately 250,000 student athletes, between five and ten of them are transgender girls competing in sports. That is, at most, 0.004 percent of the student athlete population.

SPOKESMAN REVIEW Heywood’s dangerous idea risks direct harm to Washington’s girls; let them play without expensive tests or invasive exams.

PRESS RELEASE Washington’s blanket sports ban is the most extreme proposal of its kind in the country. Unlike the cases considered before court today, it will require girls who wish to participate in sports to prove their sex through invasive genital examinations. Its impacts will not…